Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-05-06
4 NEH ERA SOJE1h.

The New Era Company" has issued the
following circular. which We reproduce 80
that the public can see how fearfully GER
tain parties who have been stepped on by
| the REPUBIIC are sQuirming
The contemplate and cowardly attack on
DIR. Leonard that appeared IN last night
| REPUBIIC would not have appeared had
the prohibitioniSts had daily paper of their
own. The REPUBLIC is aS noticeable for
| its cowardice as for its lack of conscience,
| and only strikes when it thinks il can do 80
without risk of the blow being returned.
The ease is a fair sample of what We may
| expect during the campaign. The enemy
will not meet us IN a fair discussion of the
| questions at issue. but will endeavor L. draw
away attention from them by the pn0llra-
ton OF cOwardly lies about indlN iduaiS.
Their dependence will be that a lie un-
contradicted. is for their purpose. just aS
good a. the truth. Their calculation is that
by constant repetition of talsehoods in their
numerous papers they will get the lies out
much faster than they can he answered.
A prohibition daily in Springfield will
| settle their hash for this city at least.
| There now seems good probability that
We may get one The subject will he up
| for consideration at the meeting OF the
club at the hall tomorrow evening, Thurs
day. the Sth. and an attempt To reach
| final conclusion. Will you not try and
make a special effort To be there?
This Is one of the silliest utterances ever
made. Tn. pretense that anything that
could come from the source whence IT is
sued-whether weakly" or datly-could
bluff the RErUBIIC. is as absurd and foolish
As it is false. As to DIR. Leonard. We may
say that the REPURLIC has treated him
with great forbearance. When he left
the Central church. as its retiring pastor,
we paid proper tribute to the service he
had rendered. and even when he came
back here. during the spring campaign,
and used the sacred desk, on the
Sabbath. and the Sabbath school, |
as vehicles for preaching political ,
prohibition and denouncing the !
Dow low. we took great pans 10 refrain |
from misrepresenting his utterances. But |
when. after he had on this same Sab |
bath. in a public hall in this city, |
denounced all persons who repeated the y
Lords prayer and then voted for the re-
publican candidate for mayor, as hypocrites, |
and then. in A card over his own signature, !
printed IN the Cincinnati C"Rmcrcidi'id- !
ze1e and the Piqua can, denied il. We
We're fully justified as declaring the utter |
ance as uncharitable and UnchriStian and I
his conduct cowardly. Having declared, in I,
almost So many words, that all praying per /
.x.,., ,.,., ,,n,aI s,r Mr. aIlaN u-ar,. hynn- 7
critics. why did he not Town up" like a
man and stick to it''-or else withdraw it? ,
We concede the right of Dr. Leonard and
of ali others who wish, to advocate the
principles OF the prohibition party. We
advocate and demand for all the greatest
possible freedom of opinion and utterance. !
and We shall exercise this freedom. Dur
charity we believe Ia Ice broad, and wide, |
and deep But We shall insist in holding !
the advocates oI PARTISAN prohibition Ia
full responsibility for their own actual ut |
tarances and shall not allow them to wrIg- |
gie and twist out of il: that is Ia SAY. If !
the persons making them are not too insig- !
nihcant to command our attention. Child !
ren and fools will bt allowed 10 prattle on.
with only an occasional recognition, at long |
intervals. Bring on your bear, gentlemen.
With the May number, the Southern Bir-
0muc, of Louisville, ny. will cease puhli- |
cation. and ItS goodwill. plates, etc. will |
pass into the hands of the Century Co. of
New York. who will fill uneNpired SubScrip-
tions with the Century Magazine. 1t Is
not probable that any of the unused mate
rial will appear in the Century. but il is eX-
pected that some of the war articles which
the Southern BirOHGc has printed may be
used in Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War" the subscription book which the Cen
tury Co. is about TO bring out. Two years
ago the Southern BjUoInIc, which had been
the journal of the Southern Historical! so
riety. was purchased by B. +. Avery n
Sons, of Louisville. Ii has been a credta-
bic representative of southern letters. its
contents consisting largely of articles on
The civil war.
The Logop County Tndcr. of the current
week. says:
The assaults upon the character of Gen.
keifer by Gen. BOynton. in his Washington
etterS TO the CUmH6rciIi GdzGttC, are be
coming stale. BOyntOn is Grabbed and has
Dutlived his usefulness. His personal
grievances and worries are too universal
% interest mankind. Life is too short
And the Western star. of Lebanon, in
his weeks issue. says
Boynton is now after keifer. BoyntOn
: never so happy as when quarreling with
somebody. and as most of the people in
his country disagree with him. he does not
ind any Trouble in finding subjects.
Gen. RosSer. of Virginia. should be very
,areful not TO meddle with General Phll.
Sheridan when he takes his next ride
through the Shenandoah valley. If Rosser
should make Little Phil. mad, he would
.cuss''his head of in five minutes.
A New Jersey paper. owned by Gen.
Linton b. Fiske. late prohibition candidate
Ior governor, puts the name Of Blaine at
he head of its editorial page aS its candi-
late for the presidency.
The sewing machine and the newspaper
20 along life's pathway abreast. Each is
,lwayS better than all the rest.
4 Chicago policeman found his own son
n a nnnl-rnnm and arrp>trI him and sent